Understanding Lorrie Moore

The first book-length critical approach to the fiction of the award-winning author of Birds of America

About the author

Alison Kelly teaches in the Department of English and American Literature at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Reading and holds an M.A. and a B.A. from the University of Oxford. In 2007-08 she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

Summary

The recipient of the 1998 O Henry Award and the 2004 Rea Award for the Short Story, Lorrie Moore is best known for her short fiction. This book shows that Moore's virtuosic prose, wry humor, and sense of irony are tools for registering how Americans face the discomfort of their daily lives as individuals and as a nation.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Kelly, Alison Kelly
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2009
• EAN: 9781570038235
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-823-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature; Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies